Sunday, July 27, 2014

This one is for my husband's journaling piece and the MIM challenge (it is our anniversary week that I am working on and we are doing a he said she said journaling piece. I have incorporated journaling from the whole family and the kids artwork to this scrapbook. I LOVE it!!!! In fact I have started interviewing the kids and recording their thoughts on certain things (like Cece on marriage). It is an absolute hoot! On a side note, I went with a floral background to mimic our wedding colors and flowers. I will show the page when it is done, it is looking fab!

I usually make a MIM style challenge piece for my MM scrapbook. This week I got this main piece done and two other pieces that will serve as the backdrop for some journaling (I will blog about those in a bit and would love to hear some comments.

Friday, July 25, 2014

It has been way to long! I adore the PTI blog hops, but I never seem to get my act together on time LOL! I was surprised that this one was so easy to pull together. The picture wasn't really my style, but with Betsy's last kit it was a breeze! I focused on the stitching piece in the center of the inspiration image. I used the canvas for the faux stitching material (not really sure what the name is LOL). I frayed the edges it give it a realistic look.

I first stamped with brush strokes flowers then painted them in. This is also for the MIM challenge.

I am putting the warning out there now, that I have been LOVING the MIM challenge, so there will be a lot of posts :) This is a series of tags that I made for my coworkers. I played around with the simply scents stamp set from last years stamp a faire. It was a nice to bust it out. I also played around with different color mediums.
This one started out as not the favorite and after everything dried it is the fav for sure. I used traditional watercolor paint. I really don't know how the lines and out lines happened, but it is cool that it did!

I am putting the warning out there now, that I have been LOVING the MIM challenge, so there will be a lot of posts :) This is a series of tags that I made for my coworkers. I played around with the simply scents stamp set from last years stamp a faire. It was a nice to bust it out. I also played around with different color mediums.

This was made with smooching distress ink pads on my craft pad and adding water. It got a bit messy, but I do think I like the look.

I am putting the warning out there now, that I have been LOVING the MIM challenge, so there will be a lot of posts :) This is a series of tags that I made for my coworkers. I played around with the simply scents stamp set from last years stamp a faire. It was a nice to bust it out. I also played around with different color mediums.

Here is the distress marker tag. I applied the distress markers to the stamp on this one for the base and then pounced the markers to the image.

I am putting the warning out there now, that I have been LOVING the MIM challenge, so there will be a lot of posts :) This is a series of tags that I made for my coworkers. I played around with the simply scents stamp set from last years stamp a faire. It was a nice to bust it out. I also played around with different color mediums.

This was made with inktense pencils. I applied water to the pencil tip and then colored in the peach. I like that there is a more distinct edge.

I am putting the warning out there now, that I have been LOVING the MIM challenge, so there will be a lot of posts :) This is a series of tags that I made for my coworkers. I played around with the simply scents stamp set from last years stamp a faire. It was a nice to bust it out. I also played around with different color mediums.

This was made with smooching distress ink pads on my craft pad and adding water. It got a bit messy, but I do think I like the look.

Monday, July 14, 2014

If you can't tell, I had a day at home today. It was fun to get in some stamping time with the girlies and get to do a MIM challenge on Monday. This is for another montly moments weeks. I used my new splat stamp set and really liked how the words turned out. It covered the middle of the doliy, but still had some fun color for the words.

Of course Cece had to get into the action with this week's MIM. She wanted to do only pink, but when asked to pick other colors she was able to manage LOL! She really liked the heart element. She is giving this to the buy who mows the lawn (he is in his early 20s and she has a little crush on him).

Here is my Izzy with her creations for MIM. This card was for Grandma (I don't this this set has seen this much love in our house in like forever LOL! I am going to try and bust out a cutie as well. Izzy listened to Dawn's video and wanted to try the monochromatic card. I thought, why not!

This MIM has been a HUGE hit at our house. The girls are in heaven and I must admit I am loving it as well. Although I am slacker blogger, we have been using the MIM each week in our scrapbooks. It is making for a really fun book.

This is one of Izzy's creations. I love that she is into making all of her own sentiments now. She made this for my Dad. He had a minor procedure on Friday and is recovering. She is a sweetie!

I had an unexpected day with the girls today. We are rocking out our album and loving the MIM challenge. You are going to be seeing a lot of rainbow cards, they are all in love this this challenge. LOL!

I'm not sure that being home the day before ordering is a good thing. My list of staples is going up and up and now after getting our March trip layed out my needs list for this release is going as well YIKES!!!

I am such a off again and on again blogger LOL! It really is a matter of time for me. Fortunately, I have been stamping up a storm over here, so that is really fabulous and what it is about. This was made for the MIM challenge this week about using dies as masks. I used a stencil as well.